Cong's Hutong Courtyard Hotel
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Our new home - The Four Seasons Hotel!!!
... and your skin dries up if you're not careful & goes all scaly, nice!!
Thankfully my lovely sister has sent me a winter pack, full of fleecy PJ's & thick slipper socks, much needed, although thankfully it's not too cold in our apartment still, still have the heating down on minimum. Also got a few supplies today picked up from ladies at the British Club who've been to the US & UK, supplies of Body Shop products, and hair dye!!!
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Rain rain rain!!
... looking forward to it but it'll definitely be an experience. Leigh has been really good making himself do fitness training so I thought I would also join in tonight and will hopefully do it every other night with him. We've been majorly disappointed tonight... Still looking for that bloody peking duck and not one restaurant seems to do it... We were wondering in the rain with squelchy feet before ...
Little Dumplings!!!
Hiya,
Hope you're all having a good weekend, and we hear the sun is shining..... yay!!
Another good week, lots done at work contacting schools on their return from the holidays still, and calling previous contacts.
Tues night went out after work with Ray for a drink in Paddy's, then to a fab Singaporean restaurant around the corner from us, traditional Singaporean hawker food which was delicious & very cheap too.
Wednesday night ...
Beijing - Everything on a grand scale
... not exaggerating. Even in the place I'm staying ... lets put it this way, there's no attention to the detail about how to clean a bathroom. I'm not whinging, because I chose to stay here rather than a western-style hotel. I want to experience the real China I suppose, warts and all. I'm just raising it, because everything else is just so freaking grand and works so well, yet they can't seem to get their **** together to clean a toilet. Pardon the pun! I guess ...
A Trip to the Great Wall
... questioning why I was there and I was pretty much resigned to the fact that I would not be making any purchase. This was due to the fact that my propensity to spend on 'genuine fakes' has traditionally not been very high, and also by the fact that any purchase will have to carried around on my back for the next 6/7 months! However I did manage to shrug these feelings off and eventually purchased a knock off Ralph Lauren polo, ...
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